Exhibit 'a matter of history'

Reception for N.D. artist planned Monday at Northern State University

Reception for N.D. artist planned Monday at Northern State University

September 23, 2007|From staff reports

The work of artist Donovan Widmer of Grand Forks, N.D., will be on display beginning Monday in the Isaac Lincoln Gallery at Northern State University. The exhibition, entitled “It's a Matter of History,” will be on display until Nov. 9. It is presented by the NSU School of Fine Arts. There will be an artist's reception in the gallery at 7 p.m. Monday. Widmer graduated from Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pa., with a bachelor's degree in metalsmithing, and later earned his master of fine arts from Illinois State University. He is an assistant professor of art at the University of North Dakota. He has exhibited his art throughout the Midwest as well as in London, Spain and Norway. According to Northern, Widmer creates his art through traditional metalsmithing, taking the old methods to point out our current beliefs and values of today within his sculptures. “One goal of my work is to have the concrete space of the human body become the point of departure for viewer's consideration of the sculpture,” said Widmer. “The body becomes a vehicle for experiencing the medium by either participation or observation; therefore, the symbiotic relationship is meant to become an embedded one.” He has participated in community-based education, teaching adults as well as children about jewelrysmithing, metalsmithing and sculpture. The Isaac Lincoln Gallery is located in Lincoln Hall on the NSU campus.